10 Outrageous Blogging Habits to Avoid

If you wish to turn blogging into a career, here are Blogging Profits’ list of 10 Outrageous Blogging Habits to Avoid:

1. Procastination – if you have an idea you want to blog about, blog it now. By putting it off for another hour or another day, you may lose steam and forget it altogether.

2. Endless Wandering – if you’re looking for a topic to blog, and you decide to start by visiting a favorite blog or news site to get some leads, you should know when to stop following links and start writing. If you’ve realized you’ve been doing nothing but follow links from one blog to another for the past two hours, then STOP. And write.

3. Blogging While Cooking – are you in the habit of reading or writing blogs while in the middle of cooking? Then you better get a good smoke detector because that fried chicken is gonna burn. Lesson learned: Stay away from the laptop while in the kitchen.

4. Thinking About Blogs While Driving – this could be worse than drunk driving. When you’re behind the wheels, your mind should be focused on the road, not your trackbacks.

5. Blogging on Traffic Stops – related to No. 4, this habit could kill you. Turn off your Wifi-enabled laptop while driving so you don’t get tempted to go online on red lights.

6. Slouching on your seat – chances are, you will spend hours on your seat while blogging. Sit up straight. Slouching can lead to back problems.

7. Blogging While Swimming – while it looks cool to have a laptop while on the pool (you’ve seen that in commercials), you run the risk of soaking your hard drive or short-circuiting your keyboard. Have a book instead.

8. Making Excuses for Not Posting – unless you’re Vanessa Hudgens or some kinda ubercelebrity, people won’t really mind if you don’t post for a day. You have a life too and your readers should know that. Plus, they also have other things to do. (This is not an original idea. It came from Jeremy.)

9. Not Getting Enough Sleep – You need to sleep and rest your mind. Even if you’re not a blogger.

10. Blogging Before You Leave for Work – This is the worst.

Summary: Yes, some of the items on the list may seem too ridiculous, but in the drive for profit, fame and fortune, man has been known to do outrageous things.